Post by @ucaccessnow@sfba.social

2026-06-17 05:08 UTC

"Special" education was always a way of trying to ration accessibility, police disabled people, and to advance and perpetuate a eugenicist view of human beings. This fascist regime has been actively attacking the Department of Education so it's not like remaining in the DoE was going to result in fantastic accessible education. But by moving "special" education to Department of Health & Human Services, they've doubled down on medicalizing disability and making it official that education need not be accessible to all (and disabled people pay taxes too, so it's also saying that they can use our money but not have to serve us as members of the public). The masses, even people who are themselves disabled and their family members, have often repeated the name "special education" unironically. Strengthening this framing. Ableist framing like "special education" and "accommodations" should almost always be in quotes as they are propaganda terms. #USpol #Ableism #Disability #Fascism #Eugenics #Education

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@ucaccessnow@sfba.social 2026-06-17 05:14

By moving "special" education to the Department of Health & Human Services and once again medicalizing disability (disability is a big tent - not everyone has a chronic disease to be cured...some people are born disabled and it's eugenicist society that is disabling them, for example), they've set disabled people up as something to be "cured", not USians entitled to an equitable accessible education. Even under Dem admins this view was common - note the popularity of research funding for "curing" autism - but now it's official and built into the bureaucratic structure of what's left of the our democratic republic. Ppl should raise hell now, of course, but I want to point out that folks should have been raising hell all along. And excising propaganda phrases like "special education" from their own vocabulary. When you grant eugenicist fascist premises, you are advancing eugenicist fascist causes. You are letting them set the debate & reacting instead of staking out an equitable just democratic vision. #USpol

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